Mercury 2 becomes available on Azure Foundry
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Mercury 2 is now available on Azure Foundry. The world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant. Mercury 2 doesn't decode sequentially. It generates responses through parallel refinement, producing multiple tokens simultaneously and converging over a small number of steps. Over 1,000 tokens per second on widely-deployed NVIDIA GPUs, at less than half the cost, with comparable quality to Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini. Full announcement:
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Inception's July 2026 announcement brought Mercury 2 to Microsoft's Azure Foundry, following the earlier Mercury deployment option. The newer model generates multiple text units in parallel and offers adjustable reasoning effort. For Azure customers, the concrete change was the ability to provision Mercury 2 through the model catalog and use Azure's access and monitoring controls. The deployment section specifies an hourly software license plus separately billed computing resources, so the article's per- headline prices should not be treated as the complete Azure deployment bill. Mercury 2 deployment details
- token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
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